Malachite

$1,250.00

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This stocky group of Malachite stalactites from the famous Mashamba West mine in Kolwezi mining district, DR. Congo is certainly very different, and full of quirky characterful features. From one direction it looks somewhat like a couple hugging, but from the other side it is three separate stalactites. Its base has been carefully trimmed (rather than cut) to allow it to stand for display which it does wonderfully. With rippled textures perhaps its most notable feature, or features, are the tube-like openings at the top of each stalactite. The surface texture of the stalactites is a slightly unusual sparkling, glossy, mica-like one, in dark forest-green. There are several chips to the outer surface of the stalactites around the base of the specimen and one small scuff on one 'shoulder' of the smaller of the three stalactites, but it is in very fine display condition.